Turkic languages - a family of languages spoken by numerous nationalities
in Russia, Central Asia and Kazakhstan, Transcaucasia, Turkey, by parts
of the population in Iran, Afganistan, Mongolia, China, Romania, Bulgaria,
Yugoslavia and Albania. According to some researchers, the Turkic languages
belong to the Altaic family together with the Manchu-Tungus
and the Mongolian languages.

The following Turkic languages are generally regarded as native to Russia:

The oldest written texts in the Turkic languages date back to the 7th
century. Texts in the Old Tatar literary language based on the Arabic script
have survived beginning from the 13th century. The modern literary languages
of the Turkic peoples in Russia have been created after the October revolution,
first on the basis of the Arab and Latin, since the late 1930's - Cyrillic
script.